Gene Tierney
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"Gene Eliza Tierney" was an American film and Theatre/stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944 film)/Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

Tierney's notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)/Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946 film)/The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949 film)/Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (film)/The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).

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Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

The role of a female outlaw was not exactly custom-made for someone recently out of a finishing-school!